Jonathan Hyde
49 movies · 29 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 21, 1948 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Brisbane, Australia
- Also known as
- Jonathan van Hyde · جاناتان هاید · Jonathan Stephen Gehring Hyde
Biography
Jonathan Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian-born English actor, well known for his roles as J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, Egyptologist Allen Chamberlain in The Mummy and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt, the hunter in Jumanji. He is married to the Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. They have two daughters, one of which is the actress Georgia King.
Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among other roles, he played Ferdinand in a 1985 production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is an Associate Member there. He was also an original cast member of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the first series of which was pulled from broadcast because of the General Election of 1979. Hyde has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein, Anaconda and Richie Rich.
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He appeared in the 1989 BBC miniseries Shadow of the Noose in which he played the famous barrister Edward Marshall Hall. He has also appeared in several television mysteries, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, and Midsomer Murders.
In 2007, Hyde played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear for the RSC in a repertory company that included Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally, before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The final performance was on 12 January 2008. He reprised his role of Kent in the 2008 television film of King Lear.
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Known for
Jonathan Hyde: movies and TV shows
Acting (78)
- Upcoming Ink
as Sir Alick McKay
- 2026 The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
as Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)
- 2025 Sophia
as Anthony
- 2024 The Brutalist
as Leslie Woodrow
- 2024 Sebastian
as Nicholas
- 2024 Hamlet
as Claudius
- 2023 Doctor Jekyll
as Henry Jekyll
- 2021 Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Strickler (voice)
- 2020
- 2018
- 2017 Breathe
as Dr. Entwistle
- 2017 Tokyo Trial
as President Sir William Webb
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016 First Born
as Alistair
- 2015 Crimson Peak
as Ogilvie
- 2014
- 2013
- 2013
- 2008 King Lear
as Earl of Kent
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006 Land of the Blind
as Smith
- 2006 The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as Morgan Sinclair
- 2006 The Contract
as Turner
- 2004 Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as George Pentney
- 2003 Dinotopia 6: The Exit
as Mayor Waldo
- 2003 Dinotopia 5: The Virus
as Mayor Waldo
- 2003 Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
as Mayor Waldo
- 2003 Stealing Bess
as Edwin Snipe
- 2002 Dinotopia 3: The Election
as Mayor waldo
- 2002 Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
as Mayor waldo
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001 Princess of Thieves
as Prince John
- 2001 The Tailor of Panama
as Cavendish
- 2001
- 2000 The Prince and the Pauper
as Lord Hertford
- 2000 Eisenstein
as Meyerhold
- 1999
- 1999 The Mummy
as Allen Chamberlain
- 1997 Titanic
as Bruce Ismay
- 1997 Anaconda
as Warren Westridge
- 1997
- 1995 Jumanji
as Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
- 1995 Bliss
as Dr. Oliver Pleasance
- 1994 Ri¢hie Ri¢h
as Cadbury
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994 Being Human
as Francisco
- 1994 Deadly Advice
as George Joseph Smith
- 1994
- 1994 I Spy Returns
as Cesar Baroodi
- 1993
- 1992
- 1991 Children of the North
as Colonel Shrapnell
- 1991
- 1991 The War That Never Ends
as Corinthian Representative
- 1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Joseph Goebbels
- 1989 Fellow Traveller
as 'Sheriff of Nottingham'
- 1989 Sitting Targets
as Vincent Stott
- 1989
- 1987 The Death of the Heart
as St. Quentin Miller
- 1986 Caravaggio
as Baglione
- 1986
- 1985 An Indecent Obsession
as Neil Parkinson
- 1985
- 1985 Poppyland
as Wilson Barrett
- 1984
- 1984
- 1980 Hamlet
as Rosencrantz
- 1979 Phoelix
as Napier
- 1979
- 1977
- 1977
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1998
- 1992 HBO First Look
1 episode